It’s day three of a heat wave in the land of no A/C, with daytime temps in the mid-90s/mid-30s and at night we don’t reach our low of 70/20-ish until around 4am. I am shutting up the house by 9am each day, and kitties don’t get more than 5min on… Read More »Blarg… so hot
Progress and Casualties First, the progress: I’m on 4/4 turtles in the Ocean Rain top from John Arbon Textiles: The spindle I’m using here is one I’ve had a rockier relationship with. It’s made by Subterranean Woodworks and feels well balanced, but I’ve never felt like I was getting it… Read More »Spinning Campaign Report
As we were driving back from Voroneț to Iași, my aunt remarked that I had clearly been working on multiple things over the holiday and asked just how many I brought with me. And was I working on all of them? Or had I finished that red yarn before I… Read More »So how many projects did you bring??
First, let me say I am torn about mummy displays in museums. On one hand, we can learn an immense amount of information about past peoples and cultures from mummies. On the other hand, so often they feel pretty macabre. Putting long dead people on display can feel, well, invasive.… Read More »The Field Museum Chicago – Peruvian Mummies
